The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1887-02-18

one Of > woman. After acareful scrutiny
o. all the chnrrod remains the physicians
agreed that they are those a. thirty two
pcrsons (including the i've mentioned
aoove) There arc thirty-6ve injured now
under treatment One Of Thorn died To-
day Nine slightly injured have gone on
their journey. This accounts for sevo N.Y.
seven persona The most careful coln-
parison of estimates By the railroad
ofncials indicate that there were eighty
one persons In the cars which went on the
bridge. This would leave only four per-
sons st1ll unaccountcd for. unless the
travelling without tickets-
All requests for information, II address.
cd 70 Henry r Tinker, station agent
White River Junction. will receive
prompt attention
The list Of wounded does not now mate
rally diner from that telegraphed last
night. The identified dead, 80 far q are
. ccrtained. arc:
Ed y. Dillon, Dartmouth.
g. 8 Wcstcott. Burling ton.
Frank L. Wesson, Springfield.
ID. Nargnet, Sch anigcn. Que.
Edward Banks, brakeman, Of Lebanon,
n. H.
Miss Nancy Dun bar, Of Porters Station,
Somer~ille. Mass-
Mason Mills, Of Iroquois, Ont.
John MADDEN, colored, porter Of the
Pullman Pilgrim.
Mr.. Henry W. Tewksbury. the lecturer,
says he was dozing when he was aroused
BY feeling the humping on the ties and the
car seemed to leap into space and come
down with terrible crash. For moment
he was stunned and hardly knew whether
hA AAAA II Il .{>I -.
but found he could not bulge an inch
He noticed with great alarm that dire had
broken out It the farther end OF the car.
He struggled with al his strength to free
Gmself, and screamed for help.
Despite his own anxiety he could not
help noticing an old couple few seats
from him who were tied down BY timbcrs,
while the flames rapidly approached.
The last he saw Of them they were locked
In each Others arms and were kissing
each other : fond goodbye on this earth.
Then the smoke and flames envoloped
them and hid them from view.
Mr.. Tewksbury gave himself up for lost.
and covered his face with his fur cap to
shut out the approaching flames His
hopes Of life were suddenly renewed By
hearing voices. He threw on the cap and
saw the engineer and firemen near BY.
They answered his frantic calls and tried |
to pull him out, but failing to do 50 were
about TO leave him, when he begged Of |
them to try again, and break his legs il |
necessary. They did 50, and managed to |
set him out by breaking his leg and arm. |
They were Just in time. as the flames had
already corched his clothing.
DR.. Bray tells aheartrending story OF the \
death OF Edw Frank Dillon, OF SPRING /
field, VT, who was . student OF Dartmouth |
College, and who had more than local |
reputation a. . base ball pitcher. He was
travelling with q friend named veasey.
Both were pinned down by the wreckage,
and conversed together. The fire burned
J beam away from Weary. and he got out
People congregated about poor Dillon and
'ried 70 release him, but car wheels and
other material lay on his breast. He
alked 10 those near him. He knew his
hour had come, and sent message to his
mother, saying how he died His last
thoughts were Of her and the SORROW his
ieath would cause her, and he asked her
10 bear up under the trial. The flames
came nearer. As the IRE reached him he
gave one last cry, and closed his eyes in
leath- In the presence Of at least score
u men he was burned TO death \
A farmer living near the scene was
awakened BY the sharp call for brakes
rom the locomotive and could distinctly
lear the crash Of the falling cars on the
&c. He hastily dressed and went to the
wreck. On nearing II he stumbled over
he body Of q woman who had been
ragged from the wreck and left for dead,
md on making examinations found her
till alive He went and got his team and
ook her TO his home and thus saved one
lie.
Mr.. Dunbar, OF Boston, came on here
md identified the body Of his sister, the
My means Of Identification being q swol-
en- finger joint and . peculiar shape Of the
Get.
Miss Lowell. whose brother-in-law. Mr..
Nesson. was killed. was not much hurt
After she got TO the Junction House. which
8 being used as q hospital, she forgot her
yrlef in the sorrow Of the others, and set
bout relieving the sufferers She was .
most welcome visitor at their bedside&
Mrs. Graham was the most seriously in
ured Of those Ct the hotel Her spine -
INJURED.
The following are additional names Of
tiled: VI
Cephas Mills, OF Iroquois, Ont M
A young girl named Boulander, Of Hol-
oke
A. ,. Hammer, Of Boston, Pullman por.
er. III
Unknown Pullman porter.
Edgar Wilder, Of Dayton, Ohio.
Charles w. sanford, Of Lowell, Mass,
Mrs. Devineau, Of Winosky.
OVER SIXTY KILLED.
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION, VT. Feb. a.
)ne OF the wrecked cars on the ice had
lot been overhaulcd at last accounts, and
4 was thought that at least twenty bodies
we're in the debris. Should this prove so
I would run the list Of killed up TO over
'ixty, not including those which may have
BEEN carried into the river through the
&c. The latest computation as to tho !
,umber Of persons on the train places 1t
II over one hundred. M
what He Meant BY what ne said.
WAsHISGToy, Feb. 6-The Spanish
Minister having been credited In an inter-
REV with using the expression that ssrc-
2risals are the most effective method By
which the American can It last be shown